Posted on 12/09/2022 3:00:48 AM PST by ransomnote
Dec 8 (Reuters) - Canada's TC Energy shut its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in Kansas, making it one of the largest crude spills in the United States in nearly a decade.
The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas about 20 miles (32 km) south of a key junction in Steele City, Nebraska, is unknown. It is the third spill of several thousand barrels of crude on the pipeline since it first opened in 2010.
The 622,000 barrel-per-day Keystone line is a critical artery shipping heavy Canadian crude from Alberta to refiners in the U.S. Midwest and the Gulf Coast. It is unclear how long the closure will last.
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Steele City is roughly the junction where Keystone splits, with one segment moving crude to Illinois refineries and the other carrying oil south to Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast.
If the spill is located south of the junction, TC may be able to quickly restart the segment to Illinois, RBC analyst Robert Kwan said in a note.
Past shutdowns have generally lasted about two weeks, but this could last longer as it involves a water body, Kwan said.
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Ya I guess I was dreaming... You put it in the proper perspective and are correct... It could have been a lot worse. I just hate giving into the enviro whackos and when we can’t defend against something like this after the fact well, basically... It sucks! Lol...
ruh-roh.
Maybe they got tired of shooting at transformers??
If you can’t hide oil from them spill it so they can’t use it.
Plan?
In the oil fields, the barrel unit of measure is 42 US gallons.
A typical US oil interstate pipeline is 36 inches; some lesser and some greater.
Using a 36” ID pipe example, the pipeline capacity is 1.25 barrels per foot.
One mile of pipeline ( 5280 ft) has the capacity of 6,600 barrels.
A spillage of a estimation of 14,000 barrels is 2.1212 miles of pipeline capacity.
Turning a pipeline pump off does not automatically take length of pipeline to zero psi due to fluid dynamics factors.
Using your garden/lawn water hose, if when completed of your task you lay the hose down and turn the water off, you will have degrading, continuing flow until the capacity of the hose is removed to the lowest end by gravity.
Same example, if you have a close spray nozzle on the hose, pressure stays present until you relieve such by opening the spray nozzle. Turing the faucet off did not take the contained psi to zero until you relieved the pressure at the nozzle.
Now increase the scale of your 0.50 to 0.75 inch ID water hose to 36 inches and miles of length.
Probably the same eco-terrorists who shut down the electricity in North Carolina.
Only the third spill of 14,000 barrels out of a
total of 2,724,360,000 barrels...over ten years?
Not that much.
That was a big mis-communication as nobody clearer described what was being shut down.
Keystone wasn’t shut down. The construction of Keystone XL was shut down.
It was phase 4(actually phase 5). XL was to run diaginal to Keystone 1 until it intersected in Steele City Ne.
It was to carry oil a shorter distance thru larger diameter pipe.
When it was shutdown, Canada then pulled out of the deal.
I believe the US was to have a branch of it’s own and it was called the ‘extension’ of the pipeline. That was canceled. What was damaged was the Canadian portion of the pipeline.
After looking things up a little more, to be clear, Canada pulled out of the deal approx. 6 months after Pres. Biden was elected and signed his E.O. revoking the permit.
Interesting the the XL was shutdown by a Montana Fed Judge in April 2020. SCOTUS refused to hear the appeal July 2020. So the shutdown really happened before Pres. Biden’s E.O.
First the huge intentionally-set forest fires,
then refineries & chemical plants,
then the power plants,
and finally the oil pipelines...
Does anyone smell a rat?
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